NHER 25013 (Building record) - Old White Lion Public House

June 1953. Listed, Grade II*.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Public house. Early 17th century, with later insertions. Restored mid 20th century. Flint and brick under pantiled and plain-tiled roofs.
EXTERIOR: Two gabled ranges, one parallel to King Street, the ther running down Nottingham Way at right angles. The former of two storeys and attic, the latter of two storeys. Mid-20th-century public house façade is a replica of a late 19th-century façade...Bell-based gabled roof clad in plain tiles to front slope. External gable-end stack to south rebuilt with wall when adjacent house demolished in 1970s...Rear wing with two renewed pedimented doorways...Gabled roof with 20th-century ridge stacks east and west.
INTERIOR: cellar with a barrel-vaulted storeroom. Early 17th-century closed-string staircase in an open well with turned balusters and newels with ball finials. Moulded handrail. Above the stairs is a re-located 16th-century crenellated wall-plate and under stairs is a carved panel depicting bunches of fruit and foliate devices. Rear wing has on the ground floor small-framed 17th-century panelling to east end and a 20th-century brick fireplace within a 17th-century chimney-piece. Chimney-piece of carved oak...First floor: first-floor door surrounds mainly with wave-moulded jambs terminating in bar and tongue stops. Bridging beams mainly with sunk-quadrant mouldings and bar and tongue stops. West-facing window retains two lights of a former four and the dividing consoled king mullion. North room with a 20th-century brick fireplace set within a 17th-century chimney-piece...Either side is small-framed 17th-century panelling. Small room opening to west with complete large-framed early 18th-century panelling...Passageway to these rooms with small-framed 17th-century panelling which continues into east room. South-east room with some small-framed panelling and a panelled door with cocks-head hinges. Roof rebuilt."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
E. Rose (NLA), 22 March 1999. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 13 March 2022.

22 March 1989.
Report from architect engaged in alterations, via Paul Rutledge.
Building stands half on solid ground and half on a lagoon of peat. As this is inside the town wall this has very important implications for the history of the town.
E. Rose (NAU) 13 January 1989 and 22 March 1989.